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May 2019
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How Did Period Awareness Earn You An Osc...

Sony Music Entertainment / Jonathan Van Ness
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Rayka Zehtabchi is an award-winning Iranian-American film director. Her film Period: End of Sentence won the 2019 Oscar for Documentary Short. Rayka joins Jonathan to talk about the filmmaking process, how the production of Period: End of Sentence came about, connecting with the film’s subjects, her history with directing, and more. Find out what today’s gu ... Show More
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